films
Steven Knight’s ‘A Christmas Carol’: Dickens in the age of neoliberalism
February 11, 2020This episode points out, as do the others, the ruthlessness of a society based on competition, control and confinement.
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‘See You Yesterday’: A Netflix film about police killings of African Americans
February 10, 2020First-time feature filmmakers, director Stefon Bristol and his co-writer Fredrica Bailey have aimed for, and largely achieved an almost impossible goal.
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Kirk Douglas: The slave who rebelled
February 6, 2020“I’ve made over 85 pictures,” he fondly remembered, “but the thing I’m most proud of is breaking the Blacklist.”
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‘Miss Americana’: Taylor Swift doc establishes the personal as political
February 4, 2020It would be easy to dismiss Taylor Swift as a shallow pop sensation with no influence on politics, but that assessment would be wrong.
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‘The Traitor’: How one man brought the Italian Cosa Nostra down
January 31, 2020The cinematography is highly appealing, making a film about some despicable characters eminently watchable.
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